The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-01-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

Coal dealers and ice men are jubilant.
JOHN JACOB Aston IL worth $3.50 600 000
THERE were S5S suicides in Vienna last
year.
BoB INeKRsolLs hair 10 % white a.
snow.
PETROLEUM has been discovered in Pal
estine, Tex.
BROOKLYN is threatened with an epidemic
Of smallpox.
ILLINOIS has seven lady county superin-
tendents of schools.
SENATOR Brown, of Georgia, says he has
no idea of resigning.
The present winter is the coolest for
years in Washington.
THIS month has five Sundays, with four
changes Of the moon.
LONDON workmen are crying: '<Give US
work or give US breadl"
THERE is an increase Of Mexican ore oom-
ing into the United States.
THE ice crop in this country promises to
be extraordinarily abundant.
II is said the Mormon lobby in Washing
ton has already cost the church s25O,0O0.
SAM SMALL has returned to journalism,
having taken charge Of the Soutterw Evas.
.gslist.
NANo hA1AAAAA ICCClSCu ho iCWCA enssAs
five copies Of the Bible on his fiftieth anni-
versary.
GOVERNOR LEE, Of Virginia, is credited
with being the champion checker-plsyer OF
the South.
In New York City there are 5000 families
who receive help from charitable associa-
tions and the city.
In Scranton, Pa, the authorities propose
to prosecute physician who lost patient
through carelessness.
A GoLDENthrone, presented by the people
of Naples, has been sent to Rome as ju-
bilee gift to the Pope.
M. PAsTEUR is to retire from active
practice soon to avoid paralysis, with
which he is threatened.
IT is said that at the last Gladstone birth
day ball Miss Helen Gladstone danced with
her fathers coachman.
THE Post-ofice Department has refused
to sanction the naming of post-ofices sfter
Sitting Bull and Geronimo.
HANS HAwsEN, of Minnesota, has
daughter twelve years old, who has plowed
1l2 acres of his farm for him.
EIGHT thousand dollars was found in an
old apron Of q venerable woman who died
at Port Pleasant, N. j., lately.
NINE persons who are between one hun
dred and one hundred and nine years Of
age died in Philadelphia last year.
THE Prohibitionists have one hundred
and twenty-nine organs in the United
States to the liquor dealers eight.
AT q party in Middletown, Conn.,, the
guests piled their wraps ON bed, fatally
smothering baby which was asleep in the
bed.
THE oldest library in the world is that Of
Kwotozc-kien, which was established dur
ing the Chow dynasty in China (B. c.,
112).
In the United States three newspapers
are devoted to the silk-worm, six to the
honey-bee and not less than thirty-two to
poultry.
THE Empress of Austria and Queen Olga
of Greece, are said to be about the only
reigning women in Europe who can be
called beautiful.
THE fish hatchery at Petoskey, Mich has
222,0 ,0OO, 600 young white fish waiting to be
planted in the spring. The output will be
larger than ever before.
A CHICAGO butcher admits that two
thirds of the canned meat sold in the mar
kets there as chicken is in reality the meat
OF rabbits that have been long frozen.
QUEEN VICTORIA has received a fortune
of II 100000 through the death of William
Heathcote, Of Hillingdon, he dying intes-
tate and without any known relatives.
AN Englishman in Colorado who was
without means blew out his brains just two
minutes before friend came in with q let.
ter from home inclosing him q draft for
$1,000.
AT the recent meeting Of the Ministerial
Council, the Gar declared that he would
have no war, and actually shook his fist at
one Of the ministers who had manifested
belicose views.
The Queen mother of Spain has made an
agreement with her creditors by which
she keeps 800 600 Of her revenue and they
take the remaining $4,000. Her life 10
heavily insured.
The thermometers at Fort Keogh, Mont,
. few days ago, nearly had the bottoms
knocked out Of them, the mercury going
down to fifty degrees below zero-the cold
est of the season.
LEGISLATOR CALLAGHAN, Of Westmore-
land County, Pa, is catching it at home for
making motion that prayer be dispensed
with by the House. There is talk Of Pc
tition for his resignation.
THERE are seven hundred religious and |
-denominational papers published in the
United States, and nearly one-third Of
them are printed in New York, Philadel- |
phia, Boston and Chicago.
THE ''living skeleton" Isaac W. Sprague,
died in Chicago Of asphyxia. He was one
of the greatest freaks IN the world. Five |
years ago he sold his body to the Harvard |
medical college for 81 900.
A MAN in Ontario can repeat perfectly |
'166 chapters Of the Bible, fifty-eight psalms |
and every collect, epistle and gospel in the |
ecclesiastical year, according to the Eng |
llish Church Prayer-Book.
THE Supreme Court decided q cause |
against the King Of Belgium,s few days ago. |
III his Royal Highness does not like United |
States justice, he can ''shinny on his own |
side" Of the water hereafter.
/, DR. WILLoCGBBY WALLING, of Indianap-
lolis, late Of Louisville, has been appointed |
United Ststes Consul at Leith, Scotland,
10 position to which IN annual salary Of |
~, 800 sdheres, with added fees.
/; GRANNY WATKINS died recently ct the |
home Of Judge Tip Fuller in Athens, Ca,
N the age Of ITO years. II is said that |
her age was well authenticated. She was |
believed to be the oldest person in Georgia. |
SIe. JOSEPH Tosso, the late violinist and |
composer, used to say Of himself: "Ny |
father was an Italian, my mother French. |
woman. ] was born on board Spanish |
ship, sailing under tho English nag in Mex.
team waters.n -A
a Ban FRANCISCO woman bought ON